H.M.S. PSYCHE ON A ROCK. The following telegram has reached London from Mr. Lockyer, who is in charge of the English Eclipse Expedition, bound for Sicily:- “CATANIA, DEc, 15, 3 P.M. The Psyche, with the Eclipse Expedition on board, has struck on a sunken rock near Catania. “All hands have

Next Thursday there will be a total eclipse of the sun, visible in Spain and Southern Europe. In England the eclipse will not be total, nevertheless about eight-tenths of the disc of the sun will be hidden by the moon. As regards the central line of the eclipse, it will

______ It may interest our readers to know that the party of scientific men, with their assistants, forming the English Eclipse Expedition, left Portsmouth, on Tuesday, in the Urgent, to proceed to Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Oran, to observe the coming eclipse. The expedition is divided into three parties, who will

Lord Lindsay left on the 25th for Cadiz by the steamer London, taking with him a large quantity of apparatus and a house for its use. Amongst these instruments are two of a very superior character, manufactured by our most eminent optician, Mr. Browning, which deserves special mention, namely, a